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Classy Drums for Modern Jazz

Premier kit (played with sticks)

Tuned up for modern jazz sound

Production-ready presets

Modern jazz has a certain sound that is just not possible to attain with typical rock/pop/funk kits. Jazz needs tight, balanced drums that are tuned up slightly to sound right. This kit delivers the perfect jazz sound and its great presets let you get to work instantly.

The Modern Jazz Sticks kit features the same beautiful Premier Gen-X drum set and mint condition Ludwig Acrolite snare drum as our acclaimed Modern Jazz Brushes kit. The drums have been tuned up slightly for a modern jazz sound. With a setup of some of the finest cymbals from Meinl, Paiste and Sabian this kit gives you everything you need to make great tracks.

This kit includes professionally designed presets that help you start making great music instantly. It's also possible to tweak any of the presets using the simple, musician-centric interface of Addictive Drums 2. If you need some inspiration, our Jazz Sticks Grooves MIDIpak features professional drumming that you can use in your productions.

Important note about this product:

This product is an expansion to Addictive Drums 2. You must own Addictive Drums 2 in order to use this product.

AD2 Overview

Since 2006, Addictive Drums has been one of the world’s best-loved and best-selling virtual instruments. Our advanced technologies and obsession with recording the world’s most interesting instruments has gotten us on to so many hit songs, games, and movies we’ve lost count. In fact, if you watch TV, play games, or listen to the radio, chances are good that you’ve already heard Addictive Drums.

With Addictive Drums 2, we’re taking it to the next level. More world-class instruments, more amazing sound shaping features, more tools for rhythm creation and transformation, and total freedom to pick only the kits and add-ons that are right for you. All this while maintaining the fast, clean, musician-centric interface that made us successful in the first place. We hope you'll love what we have made.

So check out the drum kits below! They're all powered by the Addictive Drums 2 engine, which is now included with every kit. Listen to audio demos or download the full-functioning, non-limited demo software to hear our glorious Fairfax Vol.1 ADpak in your own music. It's free! If you like it, expand your collection by buying more AD2 ADpaks, MIDIpaks, Kitpieces or bigger discounted bundles. It's your choice!

What's new in AD2

1. More legendary drums. New sound engine.

Our team has traveled around the world and found some truly amazing drums in world-famous studios such as our brand new Fairfax kit. This kit was recorded at the legendary Fairfax Recording studio in Los Angeles (formerly known as Sound City).

Fairfax and all of our existing ADpaks (from Addictive Drums) have been updated to make full use of all the new features of the Addictive Drums 2 engine.

2. New sound shaping and kit building features.

Ask and you shall receive, customers! We've listened to your feedback and made dozens of improvements, both small and large! Highlights include:

More kitpiece slots, new studio-grade effects (including delay and saturation/distortion), brand new Tone Designer and Transient Shaper modules, easy kitpiece linking, and lots of new electronic sounds that can take your drums to exciting new territories.

3. New rhythm creation and transformation tools.

Say goodbye to boring beats. Our new Beats page helps you locate or build interesting beats quickly and to transform existing beats to make them uniquely yours. The intuitive system is designed to be simple for beginners but very deep for power users.

You can even drag-and-drop drum hits and complete loops straight to your music software's timeline for maximum ease of use.

THE ADDICTIVE DRUMS 2 ENGINE

With its fast, clean, and musician-centric interface, you might not realize you're using one of the most advanced software instruments in the world. The original Addictive Drums instrument was launched in 2006 and has undergone near continuous refinement with a single goal in mind: To help you get the ultimate drum sounds in your music.

Addictive Drums 2 is a giant leap forward in our mission to help you make your best work yet.

BUILD YOUR PERFECT KIT

Don't like your snare drum or crash cymbal? Swap them out in seconds with any other kit piece in your drum collection! Want to turn down the ride, turn up the cowbell and maybe beef up your kick drum by linking it to an electronic sub-kick? Not a problem. The Kit page makes all this easy.

This page is where you can make changes to your drum kit. Easily modify any of our professionally designed presets or build your own presets from scratch. Our simple interface presents information in ways that musicians understand while eliminating unnecessary complexity.

TWEAK YOUR SOUNDS TO PERFECTION

Are you a recording engineer at heart? Do you love diving down to the individual microphone and instrument levels and tweaking everything to perfection? We think you're going to be very happy when you see all the amazing features on the Edit Page of Addictive Drums 2!

FIND THE PERFECT BEAT

Addictive Drums 2 is more than just great sounding drums in your music. It's also a collection of outstanding rhythms and grooves played by professional drummers. Even if you are an experienced drum programmer, you're sure to find inspiration here. The only thing better than these beats would be hiring a professional drummer, booking a studio, and spending hours recording.

On this page, you can browse through all of the rhythms to find your inspiration. If you have a specific beat in mind, it's very easy to search your collection using the Grid Search tool. And if you'd like to modify an existing beat to make it uniquely yours, the powerful Beat Transform system makes it easy. And once you find a beat you love, simply drag-and-drop it to your host's timeline. Easy!

ADD GREAT DRUM EFFECTS

The FX page contains two Delerb effects. This outstanding effects processors combines delay and reverb effects in one place and lets you push the sonic envelope. With two of them at your disposal, you'll have no shortage of options when designing exciting sounds.

FIND NEW WAYS TO USE YOUR KITS

ExploreMaps let you step through all of the ADpaks and audition and select any of the professionally designed presets. Each preset includes a beat that was specifically designed to show off that preset in the best light. You can also audition ADpaks you don't own yet to get a taste of what they have to offer!

WHAT’S NEW IN ADDICTIVE DRUMS 2?

SOUND SHAPING IMPROVEMENTS

Our new Transient Shaper gives more or less 'snap' to individual kitpieces or your overall drum mix.

The new Tone Designer makes a drum sound more or less dampened, letting you add or remove ringing with ease.

Two Delerb processors combine Delay and Reverb effects that are ideal for drums. A unique 'Swirl' thickening feature and advanced EQ give sound designers lots of exciting new options.

Six additional Kitpiece Slots let you build kits with up to 18 individual drums.

Specialty "Trigger" Kitpieces (sine waves, white noise, one shot drum samples, etc.) open up a world of new sound design options. You can link them to acoustic drums to give more “oomph” or even use them on their own to create new analog and digital drum machine sounds!

New Response section lets you tweak performances to fit them into a mix.

Two MultiFX inserts on every channel for even more sound design options.

New 4 band EQ with additional Low and High cut controls.

NEW BEAT CREATION TOOLS

New Beat Transformer lets you tweak any existing rhythm to make it fit into a track and to make it uniquely yours. No more cookie-cutter beats!

New Grid Search system lets you quickly find the beat you hear in your head!

The Record MIDI feature saves time by letting you record MIDI directly from your host software into Addictive Drums 2.

WORKFLOW ENHANCEMENTS

You can now Drag’n’Drop Audio directly from the Addictive Drums 2 engine. Play a drum—or even a whole rhythm if you like—and simply drag it as an audio file straight into your music software’s timeline or desktop.

New “Sound Ideal” search system lets you sort all your presets from ‘clean’ to ‘distorted’ to help you narrow down and find the right sounds quickly.

Snapshots makes A/B comparisons super easy. Take snapshots of all your settings and instantly recall any four snapshots instantly.

New CloudSync system means your presets are always up to date and with you no matter where you choose to work.

Standalone version of AD2 is your perfect jamming companion. Fire it up quickly and start playing along without dealing with your music software. The new Tempo control makes it easy to adapt beats to your needs.

Many improved Copy/Paste features.

New great sounding presets and ExploreMaps for all your existing kits lets you get your drum track sounding great in no time.

All Presets now include a MIDI preview to let you hear the preset played as the sound designer imagined. Use it to find inspiration or write all new music.

Users can now preview all ADpaks and MIDIpaks (even ones they don’t own) from directly from Addictive Drums 2.

DON'T SETTLE FOR GENERIC.START WITH ANY ADPAK OR BUNDLE. GET CREATIVE WITH FEATURES LIKE THE TONE DESIGNER, KIT PIECE LINKING, BEAT TRANSFORMER. FIND YOUR UNIQUE SOUND AND MAKE SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY TODAY.

ADDICTIVE DRUMS 2 - PRODUCTS

AD2 Bundles

Artist Bundle

Producer Bundle

XXL Studio Bundle

AD2 ADPAKS

Studio Rock

Vintage Dry

Black Velvet

Session Percussion

Indie

Metal

Reel Machines

Funk

Modern Jazz Sticks

Modern Jazz Brushes

Retroplex

Blue Oyster

Black Oyster

Studio Prog

Studio Pop

Fairfax Vol.1

AD2 MIDIPAKS

60's Beats

Heavy Rock

Diabolic

Indie Rock

Funk'd Up

Percussion Beats

Loud Beats & Songs

Dry Beats & Songs

Reggae

Writer's Blocks

Blues

Alternative Rock

Latin Afro

Sloppy Grooves

Ballad Grooves

Rock'n'Roll

Jazz Brushes Grooves

Jazz Sticks Grooves

Funk Beats 1

Funk Beats 2

Reel Machines Beats

Rock Songs

Retro Songs

Metal Songs

HipHop

Punk Rock

American Rock

AD2 KITPIECES

Pearl Masterworks Piccolo Snare

Ludwig Supraphonic 402 Snare

Sonor Designer Snare

DW Collector's Bass Drum

DW Solid Piccolo Snare

Premier Gen-X Bass Drum

DW Woofer Bass Drum

Vistalite Bass Drum

Requirements:

System:

PC: Windows 7 or Windows 8 (32/64 bit)

Mac: OS X 10.7, 10.8, 10.9 (32/64 bit)

2 GB RAM. 4GB or more recommended.

Approximately 700 MB of free disk space

High-speed Internet connection (during installation only)

Supported Formats:

VST (32 and 64 bit)

AU (32 and 64 bit)

AAX (32 and 64 bit)

Standalone (Windows and OS X)

Supported Hosts:

Addictive Drums 2 should work on any host that supports VST, AU, or AAX plugins. XLN Audio actively tests Addictive Drums 2 on the following: